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GEORGE ARTHUR GOODSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO THEGOODSON GRAFl-IOTYPE COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., AOORPO- RATION OFNEIV JERSEY.

FONT OF TYPE.

SPECIFJIGATIGN forming part of Letters Patent NO. 696,734, dated Aprill, 1902. Application filed September 3, 1901. Serial No. 74,064. (Nomodell To @ZZ whom t may con/ecrit:

Be itknown that I, GEORGE ARTHUR GOOD- SON, a citizen ofrOanada,residing at Minneapolis, in the County of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fonts ofType; and

I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to ro which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved font of type. ticfeature of improvement is that this font of type contains kei-ned typeand other coperating type,neitherofwhich kinds of typerequire anytrimming or dressing in order to provide forthe use of the kerned type.This characteristie feature affords a font of type which may be cast andset into justified lines ou a typezo casting machine.

Type-founders type as made prior to my invention included kerned type;but the kern had to be undercut or filed away after the kerned type wascast in order to afford the 2 5 necessary clearance to permit the kernedportion of the type to overhang the body portion of an adjacent orcooperating type alongside of Which the kerned type might happen to beset. Otherwise stated, the kern had to 3o be completed by hand. It couldnot be cast in complete or inished form, for the reason that it couldnot draw from the matrix. It is obvious, of course, that if a matrix wasprovided with such reverse surface as would be required to produce akern with the undercut or beveled surface required for coperation withother ordinary type that such a kerned type could not be drawn out fromthe matrix.

4o According to my in ventionI cast the kerned type just as thetype-founders have hitherto done; but, contrary to the old practice,Ileave the kern as it comes from the matrix, or, in other words, I leavethe kern with the abrupt or right-angled shoulder and use the same inthat Way when the type is set. I do not undercut, iile, or dress thekern in any way. The other type of the font which would come intocooperation with the kerned typeto The characteriswit, all of the othertype of the font with the 5o exception of certain logotypes, &c. havetheir walls formed to receive or seat the kerns of the kerned type whenthe type are set. More specifically stated, I form all the other lettersof the font with the necessary bevel for cooperation with the kernedtype with the exception of 1, j, i, and b and t'he tiff, (797 CHH Lf-77Ccm. They are so cast and used as cast without requiring any filing ortrimming. Hence 6o this font of type may be cast and set into justifiedlines of individual Type on a type casting and setting machine, and thiswas the special use for which the invention was designed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likenotations refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In said drawings, Figure l is a view in plan upside down, illustrating aform of type con- 7o taining the kerned and other cooperating typeconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge or sideelevation of the form of type shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a back view ofthe same. Fig. 4 is a hack 75 view of the left-hand pair of type shownin Figs. l and 3-to Wit, the types f and o pulled apart from each other.Fig. 5 is an upside-down plan View of the same pair of type as shown inFig. 4 and in the same re- 8o lation to each other, and Fig. 6 is avertical section on the line 006 or of Fig. 5.

In the matrix employed on the Goodson type casting and setting machinedisclosed in my prior patents, No. 530,481, of date December 4, 1894,and No. 609,098, of date August 16,1S98,countersunk surfaces are formedoutward of the matrices proper, so that a portion of the type-body iscast in the matrix. This is done to insure absolute precision in 9o therelative location of the type-face on the type-body. Otherwise stated,the partingline (indicated in the drawings, Figs. 2, 3, and 4, by thedotted lines .e c between the matrixblock and the body-mold) is belowthe upper ends of the type-body. This fact is stated t0 render thedrawings herein more easily read with reference to the showing of thekerned type and the formation of the other type of the font forcooperation with the untrimmed kern.

By reference to the drawings it may readily be seen that the type markedwith the nnmeral 7 are kerned type and that the type marked With thenumeral 8 are formed with seating-surfaces 8qd to receiveand seat thekerns of the kerned type. The kerned type shown are the letters f, HiThe coperating type shown are the letters o and in These are deemedsufficient for purposes of illustration. As stated in the introduction,all the letters which would come into coperation with the kerned typeare of course provided with the necessary seatingsurfacesS.Bycomparingtheditferentviews, and especially Figs. l, 5, and 6, it willbe seen that the seating-surfaces Sa of the type S are formed with theproper draft-line to draw from the matrix. Since the type shown arevassumed to have been made on the Goodson machine, wherein theparting-line z z, between the matrix-block and the body-mold, is belowthe upper end of the body of the type, the seatingsurfaoes S forreceiving the kerns of the kerned type are necessarily formedv partly onthe type proper and partly on the type-body, and that portion of thesame which is formed in the body may be substantially straight.

The character of the kern on the kerned type is best seen in Figs. l, 3,4, and 5, from an inspection of which it is obvious that the kern isleft with an abrupt or right-angle shoulder and that the whole of thekern is formed with the necessary slope or draft-line on the face forpermitting the same to draw from the matrix. Just asin the case of thecooperating type 8 in respect to the seatingsurface thereof the part ofthe kern which is formed in the body ot' the kerned type may besubstantially straight and nevertheless draw from the matrix.

From the illustrations and the statements hereinbefore made it must beobvious that the type constructed according to this invention maybe castand set on a type casting and setting machine. The improvement istherefore a highly important and valuable one for that special purpose,inasmuch as it enables the use of kerned type, thereby giving printappearing the same as type from type-founders type. Of course these sametype so cast and set on a machine can be pied and be reset by hand, justas type-founderstype. This font of type is used for making correctionswhen necessary in forms already set on the machine.

"What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

A font of type containing kerned type with untrimmed kerns and othercooperating type with seating-surfaces for receiving or seating thekerns of said kerned type when the type are set, which seating-surfacesare formed partly on the type proper and partly on the type-body,substantially as and for the purposes bset forth.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE ARTHUR GOODSON.

'Witnesses:

CHAs. E. HUNTER, JAS. F. WILLIAMSON.

